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Undergrad Why Do Electrons Jump into the Conduction Band in Semiconductors?
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Graduate Electron diffraction experiment
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Undergrad Graphene Nobel winners discover new property of graphene
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Graduate Neutron and x-ray inelastic scattering
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Graduate Graphene Allows Protons to Pass Through
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Graduate Molecular Orbitals: Understanding & Rules
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Graduate Current density in graphene-giant?
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Undergrad Understanding the concept of Polar and Non-Polar Semiconductors
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Graduate Why Are Some States More Probable in Thermal Equilibrium?
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Graduate What happens when Bose-Einstein Condensate exits a vacuum?
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Graduate What happens when you remove an excessive amount of electrons.
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Graduate Mossbauer data analysis - folding
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Graduate Resonance in electron impact on atoms
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Graduate Free electron concentration range between semiconductors and metals
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Graduate Different values of g factor (gyromagnetic ratio) of nuclei
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Graduate Why Do g Factors Vary Among Different Atoms?
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Undergrad Heating & Electrical Resistance
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Graduate Can the volume of a Magnetoptical Trap be estimated from a 2D projection?
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High School What is the Difference Between Valence and Conduction Bands in semiconductors?
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Graduate Generalising the Ising model to multiple spin values
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Graduate Law of the PN junction under forward bias. Valid ?
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Undergrad Benefits of Nitrogen in Venting UHV Systems?
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Graduate Tight Binding Model: mathematics
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Graduate What is the first Brillouin zone and how do I construct it?
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Graduate Solid-State Cooling: Cheaper than Thermoelectric?
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Graduate How to compute multidimensional inverse Fourier transform
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Undergrad Calculating electron and hole population in a semiconductor
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Undergrad Compression of air, and its mass density
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Undergrad Energy levels and hydrogen atom
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Graduate Convention for the symbol of Dielectric Constant
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Graduate The complex refractive index vs. permittivity
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Graduate Positronium emitted wavelengths
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Undergrad Dispersion relation (particle in a box)
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Undergrad Forming an Excimer - Explaining the Process for Xenon
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Undergrad Hydrogen - The Mysterious Anomaly
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Graduate Saturation Intensity and Power
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Graduate Degeneracies in Optical Modes in relation to Heat Capacity in a Solid
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Graduate ESR Spectroscopy: Hydrogen vs. Deuterium G-factor
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Graduate Rotation in a rotating superfluid
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Undergrad Semiconductors valence and energy bands
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Graduate Bose Einstein condensation in 2D finite space
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Graduate What is the lower limit of frequency range of acoustic phonon modes?
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Undergrad PN Junctions vs Transistors When Building Logic Gates
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Graduate Does anyone have experience with DBWS software for Rietveld refinement?
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Graduate Defect production / neutron radiation
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Graduate Differences between Powder, Pellet, and Thin Film Forms
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Graduate How much the dielectric loss tangent of 10 nm thick SiO2 ?
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High School Molar Mass & Atomic Number: Explained
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Graduate Where Can I Find Lecture Notes for Many Body Theory of Solids by John C. Inkson?
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Graduate Can Two Atoms in a Bose-Einstein Condensate Occupy the Same Space?
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Graduate Forcing the Future: 12-Year-Old's Invention Advised
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Graduate Interacting resonant level model
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Undergrad What is the range of optical frequecy?
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Graduate Can Intense Radiation Enhance Inverse Raman Effect and Multi Photon Absorption?
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Graduate Find Primitive Cell from Monoclinic Conventional Cell
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Graduate Surface plasmon dependence on surface area to volume ratio
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Graduate Fresnel's Equations: Reflections and Total Internal Reflection
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Graduate Where does the equation for Gaussian beam divergence come from?
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Graduate Discrepency in using Schottky barrier
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Graduate Drude model relaxation time approximation
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Graduate Progress in High Tc Superconductors: A Brief Overview
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Graduate Crystal momentum in a lattice.
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Graduate Physical meaning of orbital polarization?
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Graduate Expectation value of semi conductors
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Graduate Group Index dependence on refractive index
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Graduate Help needed to understand dispersion curve of a 1D lattice with diatomic basic
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Undergrad Why do doped semiconductors have a decreased band gap?
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Graduate What are diffraction orders in nano-structures?
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Graduate Exploring the Vibrational Degrees of Freedom for Diatomic Molecules
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Graduate Does Dynamic Light Scattering Follow the Same Frequency as the Incident Signal?
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Graduate Relating molecules, atoms to number of optical branches (modes)
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Undergrad Silicon: The Key to Solar Panel Efficiency & Why Carbon Isn't Used
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Undergrad Why diamond is a hardest structure
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How Do I Install and Use Spparks for Simulation?
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Graduate Close Packing of Spheres in Regular Tetrahedral vs. Square Pyramidal C
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Graduate New 2D-Nanostructure Research: Latest Solid State Materials
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High School What Determines the Solidity and Texture of Objects?
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Graduate Books on adiabatic elimination
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Undergrad Understanding the Clausius Clapeyron Relation: Explained Simply
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Graduate Hexagonal System 194 - crystallography
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Graduate What is the sealing mechanism of UHV view ports & electrical interconnects?
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Graduate Can BCS theory explain type-II superconductor?
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Undergrad Can UV Light Be Converted into Visible Light?
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Graduate Why is Reciprocal Space Used in Crystallography?
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Undergrad Magnetic Levitation: Design w/ Neodymium & Electric Magnets
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Undergrad Electron speed and movement through a copper wire
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Graduate Why is the change in momentum of a crystal include reciprocal lattice vectors?
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Graduate Do charge carriers affect the total charge of a material in solid state physics?
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Graduate Good explanation for Soliton and Skyrmion?
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High School Understanding Band Theory: A Basic Guide
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Graduate The Case of Electronic structure of Liquid Metals
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Undergrad Calculating Bandgaps Experimentally
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Graduate NaLaF4:Er3+ up-conversion spectrum in glass an ceramics
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Undergrad Problem of formula Hall constant
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Graduate The temp. dependent Specific heat and expansion coefficient of Cobalt?
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Graduate Electron Diffraction, and General X-Ray (EBSD- Kikuchi lines)
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Graduate Why isn't the frequency dependence of permittivity monotonic?
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Graduate Meissner effect and conservation of momentum in magnetic levitation
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Graduate Questions about the "weak link" of Josephson junction
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Graduate Tunneling Transmission Probability: DOS or Velocity?
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